Motivational Quotes

Passion

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Passion

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Fuller, Thomas

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Randy Pausch

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Cowper, William

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Diderot, Denis

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

36.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

May, Rollo

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero